Author: Riccardo

Author: Mieke van Hemert “Before capitalism will go to hell … it will for the foreseeable future hang in limbo, dead or about to die from an overdose of itself but still very much around, as nobody will have the power to move its decaying body out of the way”[i]. In the introduction of How will capitalism end?, Wolfgang Streeck

Author: Alberto Miranda Bedate Recently, Ricardo Castanha posted an article which deliberates about the possible problems of Democracy inside a political movement like DiEM25. Alberto Miranda Bedate responds to this article by saying: ‘ours should be a work completely based in one single compromise called ‘Democracy’, in my view, the worthiest value of DiEM25. Consequently, questioning an excess of Democracy

Author: Ricardo Castanha The goal stated in DiEM25’s manifesto is “The EU will either be democratised or it will disintegrate!”. However DiEM25 is not the only movement pleading for more democracy in European politics or in the politics of European nations. Nor is such pleading new. However, there are some risks to this ideal.

February 26 @ 20:00 – 22:00 in Paradiso, Amsterdam A public meeting with leading Dutch politicians and Yanis Varoufakis as an official launch of DiEM25 The Netherlands. The event took place in Paradiso, Amsterdam, and was completely sold out.

Author: Dick Pels* Combating Violence and Fear If there is any such thing as European civilization, how can we define it, become more proud of it and defend it more convincingly in the current multiple crisis? It is plain for all to see that the European project is now sailing in bad weather, being threatened both by outside forces and

In the US presidential election campaign and in political discourse across Europe we are seeing a sharp increase in the use of fear as a political weapon. While this has to some degree always been present in politics, it has acquired new force since 9/11, and is now an established tactic of the populist right, who play upon electorates’ concerns

By Susan Curvers “Equality is not given, nor is it claimed; it is practiced, it is verified” – Jacques Rancière Educating citizens has been an intrinsic part of democratic societies since the first use of democratic principles in ancient Greece. Ever since that time, there has been an understanding that a healthy democracy is dependent to a large extend on

Author: Alberto Miranda Bedate Europe is in crisis. It is obvious from an economical perspective because the consequences are far more than evident in the common citizen. However, there is another type crisis, particular from this period, less manifest than the first one and barely understood within the general population: the socio-political crisis.

On Saturday, 22 October 2016 Dutch DiEM25 members joined more than 8,000 other demonstrators in Amsterdam in a protest against the proposed CETA and TTIP agreements which were being negotiated by the European Union.